CB Insights Reveals the Fintech 250 List At Future of Fintech

NEW YORK, June 27, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- CB Insights today named Kasisto to the prestigious Fintech 250, a select group of emerging private companies working on groundbreaking financial technology. CB Insights CEO and co-founder, Anand Sanwal, revealed the Fintech 250 companies during The Future of Fintech, a gathering of the world's largest financial institutions, best fintech startups, and most active venture investors.

"The financial services industry will see more change in the next 10 years than it has in the last 100. And that transformation is being driven by a group of smart insurgent startup companies. The Fintech 250 are the most promising of these insurgents. They are bringing emerging technologies and business models to financial services that will permanently change the way we handle money and do business," said CB Insights CEO Anand Sanwal.

"It's clear that consumers are demanding a better banking experience and have, in fact, come to expect their banking to be like the rest of their digital lives – personal, contextual and predictive. With our conversational AI platform, KAI, financial institutions around the world are creating these same digital experiences for their customers," said Kasisto CEO Zor Gorelov. "We're honored to receive this recognition as one of the few companies in this space with production deployments under our belt – proving the business results and consumer impact when you combine intuitive conversational interfaces with a powerful AI 'do' engine. Every day, KAI bots are fulfilling requests, solving problems, predicting needs and 'doing' more banking – in an interface as natural as texting a friend and in the channel a customer prefers."

The CB Insights research team selected the Fintech 250 companies based on several factors including data submitted by the companies and the company's Mosaic Score. The Mosaic Score, based on CB Insights' National Science Foundation-funded algorithm, measures the overall health and growth potential of private companies. Through this evidence-based, statistically-driven approach, the Mosaic Score can help predict a company's momentum, market health and financial viability.

Companies such as Affirms, Stripe, Robinhood, Acorns, Nav and Blue Vine joined Kasisto in being recognized for their innovative technology in front of an audience of 1000 senior executives from around the world and news outlets including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Reuters and Bloomberg.

Kasisto's conversational AI platform,KAI Banking, enables banks and financial institutions to attract, engage and support their customers with human-like, intelligent conversations across mobile, web and messaging channels. Out of the box, KAI is fluent in banking intents and sentences so bots and assistants already know how to help customers manage money, track expenses, analyze spending, make payments, and more – in an interface as natural as texting a friend. With sophisticated machine learning, the experience is always improving and the self-service tools enable banks to quickly add new features, products, channels and geographies. KAI helps banks reduce customer care costs by fulfilling requests and solving problems, as well as deflecting calls with personalized insights. In fact, the KAI assistant in DBS digibank handles 82% of all customer inquiries and requests without human intervention. The platform also helps banks increase revenue and engagement with contextual product and services offers, financial well-being features based on data-driven recommendations, and the ability to acquire new customers with differentiated and compelling banking experiences.

Quick facts on the Fintech 250:

These 250 emerging private companies have raised $14B across 240 deals in 2016.

Applications of their technology include breakthroughs in insurance, lending, payments, human resources, real estate, and much more.

More than 2,000 companies were nominated or applied for the Fintech 250 (only 8% were selected).

Twenty-three Fintech 250 companies have reached a valuation of $1B or more.

23 countries are represented among the Fintech 250 companies.

The Fintech 250 Companies (in alphabetical order):

51Xinyongka

Axoni

Canopy Tax

55 Capital

Behalf

Capital Float

Acorns

Beijing LaKala Billing Services

Captable.io

Activehours

Better Mortgage

Chain

Addepar

Betterment

Circle Internet Financial

Adyen

Billtrust

CircleUp

Affirm

BIMA

Clarity Money

Airwallex

bitFlyer

ClearTax

Algomi

BitPesa

Cloud9 Technologies

AlphaSense

Blend

Clover Health

AngelList

Blockstack Labs

Coinbase

Ant Financial Services Group

Blockstream

Coins.ph

Artivest Holdings

BlueVine

ComplyAdvantage

Assembly Payments

bonify

Credit Benchmark

Atom Bank

Branch International

Credit Karma

AutoGravity

Brave Software

Creditas

Auxmoney

Bright Health

CreditEase Insurance Agency

Avalara

C2FO

CreditMantri

AvidXchange

Cadre

Cross River Bank

Crowdcube

IEX Group

Nongfenqi

CurrencyCloud

Indiegogo

Nubank

CurrencyFair

Indifi Technologies

Numerai

Cyence

iyzico

Nutmeg

Dadao Financial

iZettle

One97 Communications

Deposit Solutions

JD Finance

Onfido

DianRong

Juvo

OpenFin

Digit

Juzhen Financials

OpenGamma

Digital Asset Holdings

Kabbage

Oportun

Digital Reasoning Systems

Kakao Pay

Orchard Platform

Droit Fintech

Kasisto

Oscar Health Insurance Co.

Earnest

Kensho Technologies

Paga

Easynvest

Kickstarter

Parasut

Ebury

Klarna

Paymax

Ellevest

Kreditech

PayNearMe

Embroker

Kyriba

Payoneer

eShares

Ladder

Paystack

Even Respsonsible Finance

Lemonade

Paytm Payment Bank

EverCompliant

LendingHome

PeerIQ

Ezetap Mobile Solutions

Lendingkart

PeerStreet

Factom

LendInvest

Perfios

Fenergo

LendUp

Personal Capital

Fenqile

LevelUp

Ping++

figo

Lu.com

Plaid Technologies

FinanceIt

M-DAQ

Point Digital Finance

FinancialForce.com

Magento Commerce

Polychain Capital

Finrise

MarketInvoicev

Ppdai

Flywire

Marqeta

Propel

Folio

Merlon Intelligence

Property Partner

freee

MetroMile

Prospa

Fundbox

MobiKwik

Qapital Insight

Funding Circle

MoMo

QFPay

Funding Societies

MoneyFarm

Qingsongchou

Futu5

Moneytree

Quantopian

GoCardless

Monzo

Qudian

GoFundMe

Mynt

Quovo

GreenSky

N26

Raisin

GuiaBolso

Namely

RealtyShares

Guideline

Nav

Red Dot Payment

Gusto

Neighborly

Reorg Research

Habito

NerdWallet

Revolut

hibob

New York Shipping Exchange

Ripple Labs

IceKredit

Next Insurance

Riskalyze

Robinhood

THEO

Weidai

Rong360

Tiger Brokers

WeLab

Roofstock

Tink

WorldCover

Roostify

Token

WorldRemit

Seedrs

Tradeshift

Xapo

Shenzhen Kingdee

Trading Ticket

Xiaoyusan Insurance

Suishou Technology

TransferWise

Xignite

Signifyd

TravelBank

Xishan Information Technology

Silverfin

Trov

YapStone

simplesurance

TrueAccord

Yoco

SirionLabs

Trulioo

YongQianBao

Smava

Trumid

Yuanbaopu

SocietyOne

Tyro Payments

Zeitgold

Socure

Upgrade

ZestFinance

SoFi

VATBox

ZestMoney

solarisBank

Veem

Zhong An Insurance

Stash Invest

Verato

Zoona

Street Contxt

Viva Republica

Zooz

Stripe

Wave Accounting

Zopa

Symphony Communication

Wealthfront

Zuora

Services Holdings

WealthNavi

Tala

Wealthsimple

Tally Technologies

WeCash

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With backing from the National Science Foundation and venture capital investors, we mine terabytes of data and knowledge contained in patents, venture capital financings, M&A transactions, hiring, startup and investor websites, news sentiment, social media chatter, and more. Our software algorithmically analyzes this data to help our clients see where the world is going tomorrow, today.

About KasistoFounded in 2013, Kasisto is on a mission to enable companies to attract, engage, support, and transact with their customers via human-like, intelligent conversations, anytime, anywhere. Kasisto's conversational AI platform, KAI, powers omni-channel bots and virtual assistants with deep domain expertise across mobile apps, web, messaging platforms, wearables, and IoT devices. With contextual and personalized conversations, they fulfill requests, solve problems, and predict needs as well as help companies support, market, and upsell products and services. Built with the deepest AI portfolio in the industry, KAI is an agile platform with self-service tools to customize and continually improve consumer experiences and seamlessly add new features. As an SRI International spin-off, Kasisto leverages decades of artificial intelligence research and IP to create a full-stack, scalable, enterprise-ready platform. For more information visit www.kasisto.com and follow @kasistoinc on Twitter.